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Siue, painted in 1631, is in his first manner; as are The Salutation, in the Gallery of the Marquis of Westminster, painted in 1640; and The Woman taken in Adultery, in the National Gallery, painted in 1644, all on panel, and finished with the care and minuteness of Gerhard Dow His most successful career may be taken from 1630 to 1656 About the year 1645 he , by whom he had an only son, named titus, the inheritor of the little wealth left after his father's e little of his father's genius In what part of Amsterdam he resided at this time we have no record, nor is the house non as Ree, sufficiently authenticated to prove its identity; he may have lived in it, but it could not at any time have been sufficiently capacious to contain all the effects given in the catalogue extracted froister by Mr Nieuwenhuys

The late Sir David Wilkie, in a letter to his sister, says:--”At the Hague ere delayed with rain, which continued nearly the whole of our way through Leyden, Haarlereat subject of interest was seeing the native places of the great Dutch painters, and the models and materials which they have im, in search of the house of Rembrandt; it is in what is now the Jews' quarter, and is, in short, a Jew's old china shop; it is well built, four stories high, but it greatly disappointed , but all the other rooms are low and little, and, compared with the houses of titian at Venice, of Claude at Rome, and of Rubens at Antwerp, is quite unworthy the house of the great master of the school of Holland Even if stuffed, as it is noith every description of the pottery of Canton, it could not have held even a sixth part of the inventory Nieuwenhuys found, as the distrained effects of Rembrandt, and the only solution is, that he may have once lived there; but as his will, still extant, is dated in another street, and as several of the pictures he painted could not be contained in the rooms ere in, we must conclude that, like the shell which encloses the caterpillar, it was only a teenius to whom art owes so much of its brilliancy”

As the place of his residence is veiled in obscurity, so is the place of his demise, which is supposed to have taken place in 1664, as Mr Smith, in a note to his Life of Re a later date than 1664, and the balance of his property was paid over to his son in 1665”

Mr Woodburn, in a Catalogue of his Drawings, says:--”It is uncertain what became of him after his bankruptcy, or where he died; a search has beenthe burials at Amsterdam, until the year 1674, but his na that he died at Stockholive a credence to his having fled to Yar his troubles, and mention two pictures, a lawyer and his wife, said to have been painted there; they are whole lengths, and certainly in his later ather any authentic account to build conjecture upon, as the intercourse between Amsterdam and Yarmouth has been kept up from olden time, and a Dutch fair held every three years on the shore The ancestors of the family in whose possession they still are,opinions, it is useless to attempt elucidation of the truth of this We may rest certain that his works will be appreciated in proportion as a knowledge of their excellence is extended

[Illustration: REMBRANDT'S HOUSE AT AMSTERDAM]

[Sidenote: _Extract fro at the Secretary's Office of the City of Amsterdam, fol 89, &c_]

LEGAL RECEIPT AND DISCHARGE, GIVEN BY titUS VAN RYN, FOR THE BALANCE OF THE ESTATE OF HIS FATHER, REMBRANDT VAN RYN

Good for Gls 6952--9

the 297bre--Willee to have received of the said Commissaries the undermentioned six thousand nine hundred and fifty-two Guldens nine Stuivers, the 5th November, 1665

Received the contents, titUS VAN RYN

Before the undersigned Magistrates appeared titus Van Ryn, the only surviving son of Re obtained his venia in the Angelier Straat, and Bartholouarantees And jointly, and each of them separately, promised to re-deliver into the hands of the Commissaries of the Insolvent Estates, when called upon, the said six thousand nine hundred fifty-two Guldens and nine Stuivers, which the said titus Van Ryn shall receive of and fro froround in the Anthonis bree Straat, A 1658, which was sold under execution, and fro and Reoods, moveables, and immoveables, present and future, in order to recover the said sum and costs Therefore the before-mentioned principal proation as above written--Actum, the 9th September, 1665

A J J HINLOPEN AND ARNOUT HOOFT

H V BRONCHORST

2207: a 3:3 6952:1 (Staue is extracted froister L R fol 29 to 39 inclusive, of the Inventory of the Effects of_ REMBRANDT VAN RHYN, _deposited in the Office of the Administration of Insolvent Estates at Amsterdam, Anno 1656_

PICTURES, &c

IN THE ENTRANCE HALL

A Picture, representing The Gingerbread Baker By _Brauwer_

A ditto, The Gamblers _Ditto_

A ditto, A Woman and Child _Re Room _Brauwer_